1270 Results from 2013
Elton Cane Digital product delivery at News Corp Australia
PCs are the forgotten platform for Chinese banks, who are focusing development efforts on the mobile channel and leaving desktop users reliant on Internet Explorer 6. For anyone involved in web development, having to support multiple older browsers is a constant hassle. And Internet Explorer 6, with its lack of support for modern web standards and...
23 October 2013 /retail Future Finance
Mervin Amos Senior Pre-Sales Engineer at NCR ATLEOS
Payment systems are complex and no two are the same, but if you’re thinking of upgrading or changing your payment system, there are five key areas to consider with your prospective platform. Control Institutions need to be able to take control of their payment system themselves. Gone are the days of budgeting 10 years’ fees to keep paying the origi...
23 October 2013 /payments
Retired Member
The FCA has published a depositary update in connection with the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD). The update is relevant to a firm applying for authorisation or variation of permission to carry out the function of acting as depositary or trustee of an Alternative Investment Fund. The FCA states that: a depositary must not...
23 October 2013 Financial Services Regulation
In a heavily regulated market like China, it’s easy to point out what can’t be done, but sometimes difficult to identify what can be. Many banks look at the market and see it as being too difficult or as you might say in Chinese ‘mafan’ or troublesome. It is easy to look at any industry in China being like this, but what’s critical in the market is...
23 October 2013 Future Finance
Not surprisingly, the recent political elections in Germany have brought the question of financial transaction tax (FTT) back to the fore. Basically, the Social Democrats (SPD) are making it a condition of participation in a European banking union. The reason for this, they claim, is that: “For the SPD, it’s important that taxpayers in the future ...
22 October 2013 /regulation
There’s change afoot for the transaction banking industry. Banks are aiming to grow their share of this profitable market. They’re searching for new ways to differentiate themselves and become the provider of choice for corporate customers. With customer centricity high up the agenda, banks are shifting their approach. By enhancing corporates’ ex...
22 October 2013 /wholesale
HM Treasury has published a paper “Capital Requirements Directive 4 (CRD IV): consultation on country-by-country reporting [CBCR]”. CRD IV requires institutions to disclose: (i) their name, (ii) the nature of their activities and geographic location, (iii) the number of employees, and (iv) their turnover on a country-by-country basis on 1 July 20...
22 October 2013 Financial Services Regulation
David Divitt Senior Fraud Product Manager at VocaLink
Payment fraud evolves constantly, changing and adapting to the systems, networks and infrastructure. Criminals are always on the lookout for a weak link in the payment cycle to exploit, altering their behaviour to extract maximum value from their fraud activities. Responding to this ever-changing landscape is the responsibility of everyone involved...
22 October 2013 /payments /regulation
Alex Bray AVP, Omni-Channel Acquisition & Servicing at Genpact
If banks don't develop a second generation digital channels strategy, they won't be around in 10 years time. It sounds like a bold statement, but it is a pretty safe bet. Customer behaviours, right around the world, are changing at an unprecedented pace. The effect of these changes is starting to drive a sea-change in bank strategies. Banks need 's...
21 October 2013 /retail Online Banking
More details of dark PR attacks against Togliattiazot (ToAZ), a major Russian ammonia and urea producer based in the industrial city of Tolyatti in the Samara Region on the Volga River, have come to light in a leaked email exchange between “PR hitmen” and those behind the smear campaign against the company. The website www.russianprleaks.com, dedi...
21 October 2013 /regulation
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